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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 3: In this video, you will learn:
Show how to search for and customize keyboard shortcuts
Show how to create keyboard sets

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 3: In this video, you will learn:
Define a Project and the Project Library
Show how to create a new project
Show how to preview, modify, move, or delete a project
Show how to use the Project Library to select and organize projects

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 3: In this video, you will learn:
Helpful keyboard shortcuts for operations, editing, and trimming

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 3: In this video, you will learn:
Define an Event
Show how to use the Event Library to organize clips
Show how to create, copy, move, merge, or delete Events
Show how to sue the Event Browser to manage clips

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 3: In this video, you will learn:
Explore the Final Cut Pro X interface
Illustrate keyboard shortcuts, controls, and buttons

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 3: In this video, you will learn:
Create a simple edit
Show how to review a clip in the Viewer
Show how to select a portion of a clip
Show different ways to edit the clip to the Timeline
Show how to skim an edit, then play it for review
Show how to view an edit full-screen

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 3: In this video, you will learn:
Start Final Cut Pro X
Create a new Events folder
Import tapeless media
Explain key import preference settings
Create a new project

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 3: This chapter in the Larry Jordan Final Cut Pro X training series provides step-by-step tutorials on how to open Final Cut, discover the interface, create a simple edit, work with Events and Projects, learn essential keyboard shortcuts and how to create your own shortcuts.

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 2: Optimizing your system and trashing Final Cut Pro X preferences.

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 1: In this video, you will learn:
Provides a tapeless media workflow
Shows what to copy and where
Illustrates a tapeless media naming convention

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 1: In this video, you will learn:
Explains what an Event is
Shows where it is stored
Shows what is in it
Explains difference between copying and linking media
Explains what a Project is
Provides my recommendations on how to use these

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 1: In this video, you will learn:
Twelve step workflow to improve efficiency
Explains “what should you be doing right now?”

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Final Cut Pro X Training Chapter 1: This chapter in the Larry Jordan Final Cut Pro X training series provides an explanation of key terms used in Final Cut Pro X, a system for organizing and naming tapeless media, and a discussion of the strengths of FCP X versus FCP 7.

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Renaming Clips Using Automated Batches

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Importing Layered Photoshop Files

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Final Cut Pro X: Effects Chapter 4 In this video, you will learn:
Show how to display Action and Title Safe
Show how to position text inside these safe zones
Show how to open and use the Timeline Index
Show how to find text in a project
Show how to replace specific text in a single title
Show how to replace specific text in multiple titles

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Final Cut Pro X: Effects Chapter 4 In this video, you will learn:
Show how to use the Inspector to modify a title
Select a title
Open the Inspector and make changes to the title
Illustrate a variety of titles to show what’s possible

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Final Cut Pro X: Effects Chapter 4 In this video, you will learn:
Preview a title
Add a title as a connected clip
Add a title to the Primary Storyline
Change the content of a title
Change the duration of a title
Change the position of a title
Add a transition to a title
Turn on, and off, built-in title animation
Remove a title

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Final Cut Pro X: Effects Chapter 4 Titles are animated text clips which can be added either full-screen, or composited into other footage. This chapter in Larry Jordan’s Final Cut Pro X – Effects training series provides step-by-step tutorials demonstrating how to add, modify and remove titles, use the Inspector to modify titles as well as find and replace text in titles.

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In this training, host Larry Jordan shows you the Motion 5 interface, then creates a variety of different effects that automatically integrate with the Browsers inside Final Cut Pro X.

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This online training showcases how to work with double-system sound when shooting with DSLR cameras – using both FCP 7 and FCP X.

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With the release of Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, a lot of Final Cut Pro 7 editors are taking a long, hard look at moving their projects into Premiere Pro. This on-line video tutorial shows you what you need to know to make the switch.

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Final Cut Pro X is a radically different take on non-linear editing. With an interface that borrows more from iMovie than Final Cut Pro 7, Apple has presented video editors with a new way of thinking about editing.

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Guest Host Norman Hollyn, presents this fascinating look at the process of how to edit a dramatic film.

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One of the questions we get asked frequently is how to create a standard-definition DVD when you are working with high-definition video.

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Telling great stories visually is wonderful. But what do you do with all the pieces when you are done?

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Metadata is becoming increasingly important in production and postproduction. More than ever metadata is being acquired on set to pass through to post and VFX departments; plus, metadata is required for distribution and rights management control.

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Working with multiple video formats in one project is becoming a fact of life. A very confusing fact of life.

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This session starts with an 11-step “What Should I Be Doing Right Now?” workflow to help you decide how to complete your project most efficiently.

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If keyframes scare you and the Motion tab is a mystery, you are going to have a great time at this session. And for you long-time Final Cut wizards, this is a great way to refresh your skills on basic operations.

Inside Final Cut Pro 7 are a number of hidden shortcuts. These shortcuts are not assigned to any button or key – but, if you know where to look, you can create your own customized settings.

Markers are the yellow sticky notes of Final Cut Pro. And in the latest version they’ve had a lot of very useful features added.

The definition of a nest is a sequence contained inside another sequence.

The number one interface rule for Final Cut Pro is: “Select something, then do something to it.” (OK, it may not be as deep as: “I think, therefore I am,” but this is still true.)

Are you confused trying to convert HDV to Standard Definition? Have you imported a movie, only to discover that you have the wrong format?

Final Cut Studio has a very fast way to move files between applications – called Sending.

Have you ever needed to convert your current Final Cut project so that it opens in an earlier version of Final Cut Pro?

You KNOW that Final Cut has a faster way to do something — what you DON’T know is what that is.

Does Final Cut Pro seem a bit sluggish? Are you looking for ways to get it to run faster?

EDLs were invented what seems like centuries ago, back in the days of CMX editing systems using paper tape.

Media Manager can be very, very dangerous – because it can permanently alter or delete media that you have carefully stored on your hard disk.

While Log & Capture is used to bring video in from tape, Log & Transfer is used to acquire video and audio from tapeless sources; such as P2, XDCAM, RED, and others.

How can you keep track of your media when you have hundreds of clips spread across multiple hard drives?

Have you ever been confused trying to figure out what size to make still images for video?

One of the hot new features in Adobe Soundbooth CS4 is the ability to create verbatim text transcripts directly from media files.

Final Cut Pro allows you to sync and edit multiple cameras at the same time using multiclips.

The two most time-consuming, yet essential, elements in editing any project are editing the clips to the Timeline, then trimming them once they are in place.

This Final Cut tutorial shows you specific techniques that you can put to work immediately to make your editing FLY! You’ll save so much time, you can stop looking at those pictures stuck on the wall and rediscover what the actual faces of your family look like!

This training is designed for folks that want to compress their media faster using the automation tools built into Compressor. If your deadlines are shrinking, clients are demanding higher quality with lower budgets, and you need to get work done faster, this session is for you.

This session is designed for folks that are new to working with tapeless media. As our example for this training, we will be working with AVCHD media.

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